UK Column News – 13th October 2025

Charles Malet, Ben Rubin and Sandi Adams with today’s UK Column News. 

01.00 Gaza: UKC’s latest analysis

Red Cross suspends operations Gaza City: https://www.icrc.org/en/news-release/israel-and-occupied-territories-icrc-forced-temporarily-suspend-operations-gaza-city

BBC Live on hostage release: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2r2z0gyp7t

Donald Trump on Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump

Red Cross on X: https://x.com/BritishRedCross/status/1976573684300370382

Prime Minister pledge at Egyptian Peace Summit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-pledges-uk-leadership-in-gazas-reconstruction-at-historic-egyptian-peace-summit

Wilton Park: https://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/

Chatham House on Trump peace plan: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/10/can-trump-peace-plan-gaza-succeed 

08.47 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Shifting authority from parents to the state

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-10208/CBP-10208.pdf

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10208/?utm

Baron Wei of Shoreditch (4.44 – 5.58) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UUeYdSxhOA&t=17279

16.45 Institute for the Nation: Establishing a new Imperial system

Apolitical – https://apolitical.co/home/

WEF Global Public Leaders Programmes – https://web.archive.org/web/20210804164909/

https://apoliticalacademy.global/globalpublicleaders

The Not-So-Secret Secret To Accelerating the SDGs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7Uc1HFnzg

Apolitical Day 2024 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJWsaaNojk

Apolitical Day 2024 UKC Report – https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-25th-november-2024

Apolitical Day 2025 Speakers – https://www.linkedin.com/posts/apolitical_this-truly-stellar-line-up-features-just-activity-7379910310599639043-Prcr

Catherine Day, Institute for the Nation announcement – https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7381979397605683200-jNPX

Questionnaire for those who wish to respond >> Help Build the Institute For The Nation – 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoN9VDOa5cUBAW57vcAf2Put_0K8anIc4boRTevs2ZtPSkHg/viewform 

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30.50 The World’s Largest Lesson: Indoctrinating children about 17 goals of Agenda 2030

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBxN9E5f7pc&t=14s 0.33 to 2.29 

https://project-everyone.org/ 

37.00 Death by Devolution: The murky influence of Bloomberg Philanthropies

Bloomberg Philanthropies, i-team – https://youtu.be/BvzJlSC_ifM

Bloomberg i-team further reading – https://www.bloomberg.org/government-innovation/spurring-innovation-in-cities/i-teams-and-innovation-programs/

Mike Bloomberg announces $50m investment into LSE – https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lord-ed-vaizey-603206a3_bloomberg-philanthropies-held-a-wonderful-activity-7381260731079356417-bvZm

Bloomberg LSE European City Leadership Initiative – https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7382801337367048193

UKC Reporting on DemocracyNext – https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-5th-january-2024

DemocracyNext – 5 Dimensions of Scaling Democratic Deliberation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfvIfg2XlE

North East Devolution Referendum – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_North_East_England_devolution_referendum

North East Referendum Result – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGzo1jgmVY

Behavioural insights Team i-team job announcement – https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7379062624958849024/

45.42 CST: Concerns about its relationship with UK police and Home Office

CST on X: https://x.com/CST_UK

CST Police Partnership: https://cst.org.uk/about-cst/police-partnership

NPCC data sharing with CST: https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/police-agree-data-sharing-protocols-with-the-community-security-trust-and-tell-mama

David Cameron speech to CST, 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/community-security-trust-cst-prime-ministers-speech

CST A Guide to Fighting Hate Crime, 2011: https://cst.org.uk/news/blog/2011/03/10/cst-launches-a-guide-to-fighting-hate-crime

Tell MAMA: https://tellmamauk.org/

CST on Charity Commission: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/charity-commission

Home Office picks side: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/israel-hamas-conflict-home-secretary-picks-a-side-for-the-police

54.40 Lions, Child Sight UK: Charity goes into schools to get kids’ biometric data

https://lionschildsightuk.co.uk/

https://www.lionskidsightusa.org/

57.22 Food: Pseudo scientific propaganda dressed up as research.

The Lancet commission on healthy, sustainable and just food systems: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01201-2/fulltext

Office for Health Economics on Health Care Spending: https://www.ohe.org/insights/could-plant-based-diets-transform-health-care-spending/

Jon Fleetwood on Substack ‘Dystopian Plan to Govern the World’s Diet’: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/rockefeller-bill-gates-dystopian

Farming Section, on UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/series/farming